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FIFA
President, Gianni Infantino listens to a question during a press conference in
Cardiff, Wales, Friday, March 4, 2016. The first week of Gianni Infantino's
FIFA presidency is set to end with soccer further embracing technology once
blocked by Sepp Blatter. Four years after the International Football
Association Board approved technology to rule on disputed goals, the
rule-making body is due to experiment with in-game video replay systems on
Saturday at its annual meeting. (AP Photo/Rob Harris)
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Soccer's rule-makers on
Saturday approved in-game trials with video assistance for referees as Gianni
Infantino used the start of his FIFA presidency to push innovation in the
sport.
Associated
Press report continues:
Initially
tests will be in private before moving to a live pilot phase with
replay-assistance by the 2017-18 season at the latest, the International
Football Association Board's annual meeting decided.
IFAB
will have to approve all trials, with 13 leagues or associations already
expressing an interest in hosting trials.
Infantino
is keen to show that FIFA has embraced a "new era" with the reign of
his predecessor Sepp Blatter now over.
"We
have taken really a historic decision for football," Infantino said in the
Welsh capital Cardiff. "FIFA and IFAB are now leading the debate and not
stopping the debate. We have shown we are listening to the fans, the
players."
IFAB
rejected allowing coaches to have appeals where videos of incidents could be
examined.
The
use of video would be restricted to referees ruling on whether a goal has been
scored, a penalty should be awarded, a player should be sent off or in cases of
mistaken identity.
It is four years since IFAB
approved the introduction of technology to determine whether the ball crossed
the line.
Video Technology
Expected To Receive Green Light At IFAB AGM
Press
Association reports that the new FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes
football cannot ignore technology.
The
45-year-old is in Cardiff ahead of the International Football Association
Board's AGM where they are expected to give the go-ahead for live video trials
to help officials.
Sin-bins
and the possibility of allowing a fourth substitute in extra time in cup
competitions will also be on the agenda on Saturday.
But
video technology could send football into a new era and Infantino knows the
IFAB must get it right before anything is given the official green light.
He
said: "Technology is on the agenda, the experiments to be done are on the
agenda and it's important to protect the traditions.
"Football
is such a successful sport because some wise people have protected the history
but we cannot close our eyes to progress.
"We
have to look forward. Look into it, test it, maybe it's successful, maybe it's
not. Maybe we have to fine-tune it and maybe it takes a few more years to reach
the right solution.
"Football
has a particularity which is the flow of the game and we have to see what
impact technology has.
"We
are confident we can come out with something good at some stage. I am not
afraid of anything. We have to acknowledge we are in 2016 and we have to be
open."
The
English and Scottish Football Associations are keen to trial video technology
which would aid officials with goals, red cards, penalties and mistaken
identities.
"I
will hope we see trials in as many places as possible in the world but also in
England and Scotland," said Infantino.
"I
would like everyone to have an open mind about these things without prejudging
what the results at the end will be. The recommendation is that this moves
forward. We have to discuss it tomorrow.
"Sooner or later it
will be inevitable. Let's start to do something sooner rather than later." 
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